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Doctors and Lawyers are like this. Maybe something like CPA where you can be an accountant or a certified accountant which you need for something important.


CPA is a great example. I'm a half decent accountant, and it should be legal for me to claim that when applying for a position. But it would be fraud to claim I'm a CPA.


what you are describing exists and is called a Professional Engineer in the US

https://www.nspe.org/about/about-professional-engineering/wh...


Now how do we engineer society to treat “unlicensed software engineer” with the same scorn as “unlicensed physician”?




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